Film
Weeks can go by without me noticing any films that I might like to see in the only Sheffield cinema I ever visit these days - "The Showroom". However, this week I walked into the city centre specially to see "H is for Hawk" which is based on the book of the same name by Helen MacDonald. I finished reading that book by our hotel pool in Sicily a couple of years ago and reviewed it here . The book and the film tell the true story of Helen Macdonald's grief upon the death of her much loved father and of her relationship with a goshawk that she trained. She was a Cambridge academic - quite highly strung and disorganised but happy - until the day her father died. In a way, the goshawk became her remedy for the pain of losing her father but the relationship she forged with this wild creature became a kind of torment that threatened to drive her to the edge of madness. Helen's central role in the film was given to the English actress Claire Foy who I believe ...